Former Mariner Jamie Moyer signs with Baltimore

Jamie Moyer, who won 145 games in his 11 years with the Seattle Mariners, signed a minor-league contract today with Baltimore. The 49 year old, who is 2-5 with a 5.70 ERA this season, was released three days earlier by Colorado.

Jamie Moyer pitches against the Padres on April 17, when he became the oldest starting pitcher to win an MLB game. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

Moyer, 49, became the oldest starting pitcher to win a game in MLB history in a 5-3 Colorado win over San Diego on April 17. He went seven innings, struck out one and allowed no earned runs in the victory.

The veteran lefty’s best seasons came in Seattle, where he pitched from 1996 to 2006. Moyer finished his Mariner career with a 145-87 record and a 3.97 ERA. He went 20-6 with a 3.43 ERA and finished fourth in the American League Cy Young voting in 2001, helping lead the Mariners to a MLB-record-tying 116 wins and an appearance in the American League Championship Series, one of three in team history.

In his decade-plus in Seattle, Moyer won the hearts of Mariners fans with his feathery fastball — which these days rarely reaches 80 miles per hour — and his love of the city. He and his wife, Karen, became fixtures in the Seattle community largely via the Moyer Foundation, which the couple founded in 2000 to benefit distressed children.

Even after Moyer was traded to Philadelphia, in 2006, his family maintained their residence in Magnolia. Their $5-million mansion hit the market in April, when the Moyers moved to Florida.

Moyer had a prior stint with the Orioles in his early 30s, a time when the careers of most baseball players are winding down but at which Moyer’s was just beginning. He pitched three years for Baltimore from 1993 to 1995, accruing a 25-22 record.